St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-04

make II would take up more time than1 can
spare, more time than you can give tonight.
Tiny kingdom come on earth as ii is i'll
heaven" These are familial words spoken
by every man, woman and child who kneels
in prayer, whether Methodist Presbyterian,
Episcopalian or Catholic. They all say the
words when they repeat the Lords Prayer.
Do the pe3ple Of Minneapolis say their pray
ers? Yes will answer for them. Laughter.
Do you mean then what you say when you
ask that this world shall be as the Kingdom
of heaven: "Thv kingdom come on earth as
it is in heaven" Heaven, l am told. is
place of eternal happiness.
WHERE NO DIsSENsIONs EVER OCCUR,
where the tongue of slarder is never
the back of his fellow man never finds an
entrance, whether that dagger is held in his
right hand or whether he whispers the word
that damns the character of his fellow
being; neither one finds entrance there. Ihe
streets are paved with gold. Angels live
there. Saints have taken up their eternal
abode in heaven. God reigns forever there.
And when we kneel down to pray we say,
THY kingdom come on earth, as 1t is i'll
heaven" When some few years ago we met
in the city of Reading. and gave to the world
declaration of principles that called for
better treatment for the working people
of this land, men said that we were asking
too much: men said these ideas are Utopian,
they can never be realized on earth.
And the same men went into their
churches the Sunday after and prayed to
God Thy kingdom come on earth as II is In
heaven" Who then. was the true man?
principles, or the one who knelt down after
saying the knights could never realize these
things on earth and then prayed for even
better things than the knights ever dreamed
of asking? lApplause.l / mean in our de-
claration, for we pray, too. Now. then, the
world as knighthood would make it would
not pave the streets of this land with gold,
nor with precious gems, but 1t would take
inhn
place, give him his proper sphere in life
where his merits would place him. remove
all restrictions that now stand Ill his way,
and in doing that would make-it impossible
dred millionaires. Millionaires and mendi-
cants would no longer be heard of. but men
of means and happy men and women would
be the inhabitants of the world.
AS KNIGHTHooD WOULD MAKE IT.
'Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in
heaven Some men are called socialists Tor
asking for less than that; some men are
called cranks because they ask for chance
to help to make the laws OF this country: !:
some men would deny us the privilege of
saying TO the people Of this country that the
workman has right to his place in the halls
of congress or in the legislatures of the
states, Neither one of these, places is the
Kingdom of heaven" Laughter ] and the
men who deny our workpeople chance to
sit in congress pray for the same workmen
and themselves that this earth be made as the
Kingdom of heaven" That is a good thing
to pray for, but permit me to say that nine
they don't mean it. said lie
because it is n plain word and easily under
stood; for il they meant that as they. said it
they would not attempt to crush the men
who labor into the earth: they would never
attempt to deprive them of the rights that a
just God ordained they should have. There
FORE | take the liberty of saying that they are
hr-n nnrit n iS hot ord 10
old friend Trevellick said a moment ago
when he gave me away as he did, asked him
to get up here and stave me off fora time.
didn't ask him to say that. but he did. He said
a momentag that the Knights of Labor re-
spected the laws. They do, and what is
further they mean from this time out to- take
a hand in making the laws. IGreat applause
and cheers Yes, make the law. How many
un. [Great laughter.l Not one. Laughter.
o. many of those who are wori people and
men and women of moderate means?
wont ask them 10 stand up, for
YOU WOULD ALL HAVE TO RISE.
[Laugh;erl Go out through your city
Beautiful as it is, and it is beautiful only be-
cause the hand of labor has made it so-go
out through your city, ring your bells to-
night, call your millionaires together and
bring them in here, and you can put them on
this platform in the space between me and
the table. and yet these are the men that in
this nation to-day are most potent in shaping
the legislation of state and nation, while this
vast asSemblage here, am sorry to say it. If it
is not true of Minneapolis it is true of other
cities, they sit as quietly day after day as you
sit before me, while these men take their
places at the state capitols and at the ma
tional capitol and speak for me and you as
well as for themselves, when they
want legislation for themselves alone.
th 1t being true we want our people to station
themselves there too, and we intend to edu-
cate them. Our organization is not pOliti-
q n q q
understood. 1t is not a partisan organize
ton. but in the highest, purest sense in
which the word political is used it is politi-
cal association [Appla9se. 1t tells to to
and as he should, that there is something
wrong. 1t gives him q declaration of princi-
pies to read and study and learn and put
into practice, and if a man cannot do that. if
a man after studying these things and in.
structing himself, if he cannot vote intelli-
gently, it is because his head is wrong, and
not the knights of Labor. [Applause.l was
asked yesterday, What is your
OPINION oE THE QUESTION TODAY.
Are you as hopefel as when l met You in
this city ten years ago? said yes, and more
than | was then. [Great applause Has
not all the abuse that you have received
will! [Great and prolonged applause. ]
Nothing hut corpse remains still; mark
that. That's anything that has ever had life
in it. 1t is never still until it dies and while
lives it will have kickers [Laughterl. and
they are n necessary part of every organiza-
ton. For If you did not have the kickers
there would be too many things done in a
fashion that might not please the majority.
Therefore it is necessary to have kicker.
We have them. Whether they kick for a
cause or no cause it keeps mems minds OH
the movement, and when one bad man kicks
thousand good men and women come to
the front and resent the kick [Applause],
and if the others didn't kick the
thousand would remain idle and
still, and then the jury would be done. I say,
all hail to the kickers. l have been taken to
task on one or two things. Let me say a few
words tonight on the question of immigra-
ton. 1t has been said that would deny the
foreigner place in our country. That is not
true. am the son of a foreigner. / couldn't
go back far enough to keep my father from
landing. but he who lands on the shores Of
this country should be rs my father was-a
free man when he lands. [Great applause. ]
He should not come with the collar or any
corporation around his neck. [Great APP
plause. He should not come here the hired
slave of monopoly to take the place of his
own flesh and blood. He should not come
here because 1t made profit for steamship
company. He should not come here because
men asked that their agents be sent abroad
to people this land
IN THE INTEREST OF RAILROADS.
And what say now is true, that every land
grant company in this country has it's agents
abroad sending people to this country by the
thousands to go on the lines of railroads OF
elsewhere. Then these same men, if some
of these poor unfortunate people commit all
offense against our laws when they do not
know them, if some of these people should
raise their hands, not against laws. for they
know not what they are, but raise their
hands against what they see unjust before
them, they are anarchists. While the very
men who have loaded them upon our
country go scot free and no word of condem-
nation is said against them. Great
applause. / hate anarchism. l hate vio-
hate the men who cause it as well. Applause,
and cries of ''Hear, heart Four years ago,
you will pardon me for mentioning names,
JAY Gould. in his testimony before the senate
investigating committee in New York, said
I'VE have our agents in Europe, we send meu
along all lines of railway in the southwest,
and they, may come over having little or moth